Thankyou, getting somehwere now, just the DATE3 variable which isn't working correctly, I have the below now from what I understood from your reply. I need the date to be written into where the variable lies in the script e.g. 120910
current date command runs well
awk -v t="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
subtract 30 days fails
awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
awk command in hp unix subtract 30 days automatically from current date without date illegal option error... (20 Replies)
HI,
Can anyone tell me how to pull the date and file name separated by a space using the find command or any other command. I want to look through several directories and based on a date timeframe (find -mtime -7), output the file name (without the path) and the date(in format mmddyyyy) to a... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Need an urgent help on the below scenario.
script:
awk -F","
'BEGIN { #some variable assignment}
{ #some calculation and put values in array}
END {
year=#getting it from array and assume this will be 2014
month=#getting it from array and this will be 05
date=#... (7 Replies)
Hi
I want to get tomorrow and yesterday date from date command. My shell is KSH and server is AIX. I tried several options, but unable to do. Please help on this.
Regards
Rajesh (5 Replies)
Hi is it possible to give the date command like 24th July 2009
ive tried
DATE=`date "+%d%m%Y"
echo $DATE
that only replies 2009 correctly. not sure how to display the month in full or if unix knows how to do i.e 2nd, 24th, 3rd (1 Reply)
Hi All.
I'm using date -a to 'drift' the time forward / backwards. The question is - how do I know when its finished 'drifting' ? On some systems I have another time reference I can use but not always.
thanks (1 Reply)
I want to get previous date from date command. I am using ksh shell.
Exmp:
today is 2008.09.04
I want the result : 2008.09.03
Please help.
Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Using the date command
how do get yesterday's date??
e.g.
date '+%b%e%Y'
July 30 2002
I need to get
July 29 2002
using the date command.
Thanx
(p.s. sorry if it's a very obvious question) (6 Replies)